quarter
/ˈk(w)oɹ.tɚ/ verb C2- To divide into quarters; to divide by four.
- To provide housing for (usually military personnel or equipment). · Quarter the horses in the third stable.
- To lodge; to have a temporary residence.
- To quartersaw.
- To execute (someone) by tying each limb to a different animal (such as a horse) and driving them in different directions.
- To display different coats of arms in the quarters of a shield.
- To range to and fro over an area; to move from point to point.
He/she/it quarters · Past quartered · Past participle quartered · -ing form quartering
Verb forms
- Base form
- quarter
- He/she/it
- quarters
- Past
- quartered
- Past participle
- quartered
- -ing form
- quartering
From the library
“Over head and ears; but, unless I am much mistaken, there will be a storm in that quarter.”
“Be as quick as possible, I must be on the road in a quarter of an hour.”
I receive an anonymous communication from a quarter which I know to be important, warning me that danger threatens a certain person.
Now, as a quarter-past one has already struck, I do not consider I have asserted too much in saying, that, in another hour and thirty minutes Mercédès will have become Madame Dantès.”
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